@Happy Dude you don't live in the real world!! hb1 visas drive down wages Microsoft, Google, AMAZON....ect they all abuse the system which in turn hurts Americans. I'm a operating room nurse so my job is not going anywhere. But those other jobs are good high paying in the 80k+ range are given to hb1 holders but only paid 35k~ you are an idiot if you really think these companies or dogs in Washington care about the longterm success of our people.
I am foreign born and I agree with this man, I do not think Americans are inept but there is something definitely wrong with STEM education in primary, middle and high school.
Woodycoat US College education is off the charts! BUT, I had 35 credits transferred from my High school for Math, Physics and Chemistry, and only needed to fulfill 85 credits to get a 4 year degree in Engineering. It tells you that were STEM is concerned I was 35 credits ahead of the average High School graduate in America. Not trying to condemn, criticize or burn, I just agree with what Dr Michio Kaku is saying. As a side note, I'm from a poor country and I obviously admired Americans a lot before arriving. I came to America to get educated by them, but I was disappointed that ALL my professors were foreigners. In a class of 45, 4 students were American. You might say it's an isolated case, but then again, it aligns with what Dr Michio Kaku is saying, and he is an expert.
Phill Munyaradzi no Kaku is an arrogant. clueless idiot. The O-1 non-immigrant visa and EB-1 immigrant visa types, also known as “Genius visas” and we offer very few because there are very few actual geniuses. The H1-B visa is a scam by corporate execs and Indian offshoring shops to steal middle class tech work by Americans who have to train their replacements because they're unqualified and to suppress tech wages.
The rich who live in the US do not want its population to be educated so they import "temporary" talent to help keep industry innovating but it also allows them to stay in power because they can still manipulate and control an inept citizenry.
Phill Munyaradzi - What you said sounds pretty common for foreign students in the U.S., but the real question is “Why?” To me, it’s obvious, in the United States, STEM jobs pay FAR less than other professional jobs AND STEM jobs require constantly learning new skills (without increasing compensation). Also, foreign workers get compensation that can’t be given to Americans - the right to live and work in the United States. Americans are born with those rights.
+Truthseeker182 because they get grants that locals don't, so its too expensive for us. If you have not seen this with your own eyes, you wont believe it. I work for a company that imports talentless guys, there are 4 of us and 12 of them. None of them are STEM and we are. They post jobs that never get filled (really?) and suddenly you see more of them.
I go to one of the best engineering schools for PhD. we have 80 PhD students in my department. 1 of them is American. The school constantly encourages seniors to join the grad program, but don't find American students.
coptic777 You are assuming they are here because they are better than us. They're not, they are interns from banking...No science education whatsoever.
This guy tells the truth. I am from India an every educated Indian's dream is to go to America for better job opportunities. Thats why theres a lot of Brain Drain every year from our country. But in recent years, things have changed and people have understood their true potential. I wish our counrtry could get back all the engineers, doctors that we have lost in all these years. Only then the world can see our country's true potential....
This is why I have a serious problem with what he's saying. India is a still a developing nation and I have no problem with India becoming as advanced as the US. He is a promoting a globalist agenda that helps only global corporations and immigrants seeking profit while damaging the prospects of India and American college graduates.
Hear Hear Dr Kaku!!! I've been teaching Maths, Physics and IT in the UK for almost 20 years and, the education here is in a serious state! I've always wondered why it is that America and Britain, two of the worlds most innovative, creative and scientific countries back in the day, decided one day to give all that up and create economies based on cheap credit, consumerism and services... And would rather other countries make the things we need at extortionately low cost and prices. This insane doctrine makes NO sense and now, with consumer debt at unstable levels and the economies of both countries at the edge of the Abyss, now we begin to realize, late in the day, that having a highly educated society that's skilled at all the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is a DAMN GOOD THING!!! Not only for our country's economic survival but also for the good and well being of it's citizens. I mean, America was landing men on the moon back in the late 60's and early 70's yet, recently, there's been all this religious mumbo-jumbo, like Intelligent Design being promoted. Another danger of scientific illiteracy is more religious fundamentalism and nonsense (and more crap reality TV!!!). It's time to put a stop to this intellectual rot unless we WANT the East to dominate us over the next century or so.
Mr. Doe, regarding the statement "scientific countries back in the day, decided one day to give all that up and create economies based on cheap credit", the specific problem with the "scientific countries" Can be traced directly to Washington DC and 10 Downing Street as they take their orders from Bilderberg (aka the .001%)
He's written 7 books about physics, He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). He co-founded string field theory, a subset of string theory. He has had over 70 articles published in physics journals and He made a Particle Accelerator when he was 17
@@KhiemNguyen-fw4jb From your comment it is clear that you do not have the brain to do in 100years what he did as a teen with limited resources that he got at that time...
When New York listed the top 100 smartest person in the city and Lady Gaga was one of them along with Michio Kaku you know there's something wrong there
Being a singer do not make you stupid the same way like being a professor do not make you extremely smart... And i am unable to find in google this list... most likely you got something wrong, probably it was a list of celebrities as this professor was in TV programs.
Is it awesome that they outsource talent or engage in nepotism, meaning that they only hire or share job opportunities among their own people, and not with Americans that let them in?
I've always noticed that in special effects programs, the credits are full of names that seem to originate from other countries where the education system is extremely better.
I studied bachelors in Loyola college, India. And I’m studying right now in America. I can easily see the difference. Education system and students’ smartness in India is light year ahead of here.
It starts with elementary school,,the system passes F students to reach a quota and if they don't understand the basic math principles, how can a student keep progressing!...I have students in High School who do not know their multiplication tables, so they cannot fathom algebra. Without the basic tools it's impossible to achieve an A in Calculus!!!!!!!!!!
This actually depends, not on the understanding of the students but from their potential. I have dyslexia and adhd both contribute in my learning disorder. Eventhough I have an iq that can be consider as genius, I'm failing all kinds of subjects in school. For many years I try to cope with them, and finally I can beat these learning disorder when I'm in highschool. I only learn multiplication in highschool and when I finished highschool I got straight A and granted a scholarship. So better than looking at their grades, see their potential to study. Many people said that iq not a good measurements of intelligent, and it's not. It's show the potential of the person, and a glimpse of their future.
Because USA provides everything else There's a lot fo land, lots of properties, good justice system, property rights and they invest in ruining those systems in India, so that our people go to their lands to work for them and help run and grow companies like google, facebook, microsoft there.
I am really offended by his opinion about American students vs students of developing countries in doing math. This is insulting to developing countries. American education in stem fields is really bad. As an international student, the math of GRE to get to graduate level is a joke. It is at the same level as high school math. I got 800 out of 800 while my field is in architecture. The education system even in American universities sucks too. It is not free... In my country education is free for student from elementary school to PhD level. In the US they don't classify students based on their talents and hardwork. The admission and scholarships is given to people who has networking or rich parents.
More like scholarships and admission are given to underprivileged minorities. "scholarships is given to people who has networking." Speak and write the English language properly if you want to lecture us about how intelligent you are. You are the Dunning-Krueger effect exemplified.
You’re dumb as hell for saying that-_- college nowadays isn’t what it used to be in the 20th century. Nowadays it’s all about the connections, it’s all about being social. Hence more and more people have increasing realized that college is a scam and although you can still go to college for stem, accounting, the trades etc... they also have a bunch of dumbass majors that are designed to take as much money as possible from your bank such as gender studies. Especially when you consider the fact that parents are constantly pushing their kids for college without thinking what’s ahead of them and a bunch of 19-20 year olds taking out loans for shit that they don’t need just for the experience only to graduate with a communications degree.
Both have such good points, designing first year classes to be flunk out courses wastes potential when the student might have been going through rough times
When I was getting my Master's in Computer Science in 2000, there were 13 people in total, graduating with MS in CS in Summer A semester. The rumor was that 12 of the 13 Master's graduates were Chinese and 1 was American. People were surprised that the one American (me?) was an immigrant too.. Dr. Michio Kaku is 100% right.
Of the 240,000 people employed in the US semiconductor industry, 40% are foreign-born. Of that 40%, the majority are by far ethnic Chinese. Returnee expertise more than any other factor - including the vicious slander of IP theft, explains the rise of both the Chinese and Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
The H1B issue is self perpetuating. The problem is not that America doesn't have any smart people. The problem is that our economy rewards the wrong things. What American kid is going to bust his hump through an Electrical Engineering program so that he can start at $70K when his aunt that barely graduated high school is making $225K a year as a real estate agent? We have become a largely transaction based economy. So difficult majors are less appealing. So then we bring in MORE H1B people because no matter how little they will pay a guy from India in America, it's still a ton better than anything that he could hope for in India. So wages are further eroded and round and round it goes. This is not legal but it is reality.
Then America should fixed the H1B instead of get rid of it. I don't think highly educated immigrants are related to the problem you mentioned. H1B should be for those people.
nice try with your stupid analogy but the reality is anyone making 70k in the USA is earning a wage above the 75 percentile of the population. So your "example" of the real estate agent making 225k is far from common/reality which would put somebody at the 95 percentile... in case you are not clear what that means that means that they are earning more than 95% of the working population.
They will if they all the baristas band together and start poisoning the coffee. I’m operating under the assumption that lost sociology majors end up as baristas.
Silicon Valley is already dying. Shenzhen is already becoming the next SiliconValley right now and its where all companies are relocating to as we speak.
A11YourBas3 I know, I am acknowledging that. That's why I emphasized the word seem as I quoted myself up there. It seems that way, and it is that way, are two very different statements.
Not Japan-born, just ethnically Japanese. Racists only see skin colour. There are clever people of every race. It's the educational system in question here. I'm a retired high school teacher (maths/bio/chem) from M'sia with one of the worse government run educational systems in the world. Education around the world has become monetised esp at tertiary level (utilitarian). The bottom line then is profit, smoke and mirrors, not real holistic education.
Every single study I've seen on this topic debunks this theory. The last round of this talking point was that we didn't have enough STEM graduates, and then studies came out showing we had plenty of STEM graduates, but companies simply do not want to pay them, and older people in academia basically never retire anymore, so there are no jobs for them to gain experience there. Another claim was that the US is failing to produce engineers at the rate China does, and then you look into the data and they are comparing US bachelors degrees in engineering to what are basically associates, or 2 year degrees in China, and calling them both "engineers." It fits the "America sucks at everything now" mindset a lot of people have, but it's totally been debunked now.
wowspare Lmfao you're only talking about the STEM field. And show me the studies. The Chinese graduate in 2 years? Because they study all day and night. And they come out with on par or better knowledge. How can they do it? Cause the Asians master your 12th grade math and science in their grade 8 classes. You have no fucking idea how absolute garbage american educational system is compared to other smart countries. Also how many of the so called "US grads/phd's" are foreign born? Do you know how to even look at academic studies?
There is a huge lack of native-born Americans that have the aptitude or competence to compete for jobs that need intellectual competency. Foreign students that study in USA, from countries like China (including cities like Hong Kong and Macao), South Korea, Japan, and many developed European countries, excel in all fields of academia, arts, and technological innovation. He is correct in saying that the US educational system is creating a generation of dummies and that can be proved by raw, hard statistics. The US ranks 35th on the PISA test and cannot even meet G7, or G20 standards in academic development. And the US keeps climbing down the ladder every year.
"Learn or perish." I think that this is the real reason why Americans are so behind. American students, particularly K-12 students have this cushion under them. A crapload of money is pumped into public education but the students are told that being mediocre in math/science is "ok." Across the ocean India, students are told that if they dont perform to a certain level, they will be beaten in front of their peers. The good students also bully up on and beat on the bad students. The attitude even persists when the students arrive stateside to pursue their masters degrees. The student on a visa knows that if he does not outperform his/her peers to the point where they can get hired just a few weeks after they graduate, they wont have anyone to sponsor their visa and they will be sent back to china or india. Learn or perish.
I have taught college in Central America and in the United States for most of my working life. In the college where I taught in the US, more than 75% of the students should never have graduated from junior high let alone high school. Our Academic Dean told us if we didn't pass black students, our adjunct teaching contracts wouldn't be renewed. I told her I had students that missed 38 questions out of 40 on the Final Exam and she said it didn't matter.
Although I do agree with Dr. Kaku, I believe it's a combination of our public education system not working as well as our American culture not emphasizing education enough. Look at all the inner city kids and ask them what they want to be in the future. You'll RARELY hear any one of them say anything different than a celebrity of some sort - whether it's music, modeling, acting, or sports. Ask kids who live in suburban areas that same question and you'll still find the same answer, but not to a degree in which you find in inner city students. I've attended inner city public schools as well as suburban and have seen the difference in the emphasis of education. However, education is also subpar. Our school system teaches the kids to follow orders; basically they're learning what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. The biggest problem is the education system doesn't teach students why they should do what they do. It's set up to make future generations become workers and employees, not necessarily leaders, innovators, and creators.
Dr. Kaku is partially right. Yes, many American companies benefited immensely from smart H1B workers who went on to become american citizens. Without H1B these guys would have returned to their home countries and would have given a tough competition to american companies. But these smart guys and talented PhDs constitute only a small percentage of the H1B workers. Majority of the H1B employees are not smart or highly skilled. They are cheap, obedient Indian IT consultants. They take up most of the H1B visas and many smart guys with PhDs from top schools would have to return to their home countries because of H1B applications reaching its camp within a short period. Under the disguise of smart and highly skilled many cheap IT laborers are taking up the H1B visas and displacing the Americans from their jobs. The systems needs an overhaul where it ranks people based on merit.
+RK The point with cheap,obedient indian IT consultants is not his point at all,you cant say he is partially right,why partially,He talks about the scientific establishment and why h1b visa is important, for it. What you and dr Kaku are trying to point out is totally different,The problem for the point you state out is because of USA employers only,they are not required to show any proof when hiring a foreign worker as a more qualified than an american worker.Also under this visa no american worker is replaceable but it happens,So people should really be criticizing the employers who sort this trick to cheapen their costs because many people now really have wrong idea with h1B,without knowing how important it really is to the country.
BUll fucking shit, go do some research on H1B than comment. thats the problem of American people. they dont know shit and still like to showing they dont know shit H1B have a Min wage requirement which is 67k.
They still displace middle income analysts, developers, etc and have to be trained by the Americans that get laid off. So Bull fucking shit on your comment. You don't know shit. Just google Disney tech and how the H1-B visa scam has allowed them to layoff thousands of talented skilled American employees for exactly what RK mentioned.
Dr. Kaku said H1B visa program is great because many foreign born scientists are using it stay back in the US. My point is the percentage of such scientists is very small, may be like 5%. The rest of the visas are taken by cheap Indian IT consultants. So one can't show the small 5% scientists to justify the 95% abuse of the visa program. The H1B visa program requires an overhaul where it would grant visas only to talented people and not cheap labour.
@ LEE ROL. $ 67 k is cheap when you compare that with an average american worker would expect with a degree in engineering. I would say the cost of an american worker would be about $100 K.
My son studied engineering at Liverpool university and I assumed his classmates would be like mine when I went to university. I was surprised to find that 80% were Chinese (and spoke Chinese but did not socialise, 10% were Japanese so they didn’t get on with the Chinese, the rest were uk. Most of those from overseas went back when they graduated. If you have ever dealt with mainland Chinese you will know why they go to the UK for their education. Teaching is not their forte and it takes generations to build an education system to produce the kind of people Dr Kanu is talking about. For a people like the Chinese who on average have IQs about 5 points higher than us in the west, it’s just a matter of time before they eclipse us.
The reason more foreign trained scientists exist and are better trained and educated is because most of them have completely free education. So while parents in North America have to mortgage their homes, and students have to be in debt for life, just to be educated and get to the Ph.D. level. Many other nations offer fully subsidized education right up to the Ph.D. level, and they even pay for the students living expenses and food. They come out with no debt, no stress. So America will never be able to compete with that. As long as education costs people six figures to pursue it, and be under a mountain of debt while their international cohorts get a free ride, it will never change.
Probably because the same funds we'd be taking from them are the same funds used to fund those potential H1B employee's discovering complex military technology lol
+fa11234 Let us not forget that these achieving students have parental involvement in their lives and these children have been disciplined from an early age by parents who are disciplined themselves and serve as role models.
+Dorfler In European countries as well as Asian countries there are three educational systems and they make no apologies for which educational system a child is assigned. School is 6 days a week. Before secondary school a student takes an aptitude test to determine what route he or she will go. Those with the highest scores will go to a Baccalauréat Lycée or Gymnasium in France and Germany., A-Levels School and similar programs with different names in other countries. These students are prepared for university education for scientific, medical, psychology, literary and academic careers. These universities are generally free ( not all) but only students who have the specialized educational preparation are admitted. Students who have median aptitude are sent to secondary education which prepares them for college level education in fields such as nursing, linguistic and translator careers, public school educators, art degrees, technical degrees and business degrees. Those who score near the median and below are sent to basic secondary education and trade schools.The government makes no apologies or exclusions. They won't waste money on higher education for those with less aptitude.
+Dorfler In European countries as well as Asian countries there are three educational systems and they make no apologies for which educational system a child is assigned. School is 6 days a week. Before secondary school a student takes an aptitude test to determine what route he or she will go. Those with the highest scores will go to a Baccalauréat Lycée or Gymnasium in France and Germany., A-Levels School and similar programs with different names in other countries. These students are prepared for university education for scientific, medical, psychology, literary and academic careers. These universities are generally free ( not all) but only students who have the specialized educational preparation are admitted. Students who have median aptitude are sent to secondary education which prepares them for college level education in fields such as nursing, linguistic and translator careers, public school educators, art degrees, technical degrees and business degrees. Those who score near the median and below are sent to basic secondary education and trade schools.The government makes no apologies or exclusions. They won't waste money on higher education for those with less aptitude.
+Dorfler I think what you said is true. However, it is one of the many factors. As many must have known, graduate students in the PhD programs are paid a stipend, however little. Their tuitions are paid for by the research funding. Also importantly, as Dr. Kaku pointed out, it is not PhD graduates from foreign countries that matters a lot, it's students who come to the U.S. to study for their PhD programs that matters. We have to keep in mind that foreign PhD credentials have credentialing and authentication issues. The reason a higher proportion of foreign-born students participate in science and engineering PhD programs is because the high school system in their native countries are very competitive compared with our US high school systems. By "competitive" I mean survival of the fittest - due to the limited number of college seats relative to the size of the populations competing to get in. Many countries' high school curricula exceed the first 1.5 years of college level problem solving skills in math and sciences. If we compare, for example, the past Hong Kong Advanced Level Math/Physics/Chemistry test questions and syllabi with those of AP Math/Physics/Chemistry, we will discover many striking differences. Their bachelor level knowledge overlaps with our Master level knowledge and skill sets. Of course, there are always exceptions. There are very intelligent and very unintelligent people in every country.
This is true. My wife has her PhD and she isn’t from here. I actually dropped out of college because the cost to pursue a PhD in my field(physics, nano tech engineer) was so costly and the amount of pay that you get in research science is so laughable that it didn’t seem like a logical decision. Not only that, nobody, at least at the time, was really funding nano tech. It probably still isn’t because furthering nano tech would make products last longer and people would live longer. That’s two things the US doesn’t seem to want since it will put certain corporations out of business or at least give them a substantial blow to their massive money making potential. A side note, I actually make way more money in a government job that requires no college education. I actually make more money than a lot of the college graduates that I know personally. So he is right that the education system is screwed up.
I suppose Dr. Kaku's comments reflect the United States of America of the 1980's; prior to globalization and the technological developments of the last 20 years relating to telecommunications, video conferencing, cloud computing and virtual spaces. I can easily hire an engineer in Hyderabad, Manila, Zhong Guan Cun, Sao Paulo, Guadalajara, Santiago de Chile, Prague, Budapest or Palo Alto, without having to move the "brain" around, paying a lower fee and ultimate reducing operational costs. As a matter of fact, the engineering and scientific feats of the US in the last 150 years have come not from H1B holders but legal immigrants who came to the US and stayed in the US, or American citizens educated in the US system (still happening today). Just to name a few of most notorious non-H1B holding Americans we have: Nikola Tesla (the greatest mind in all history of humanity - Croatian/Christian), Dr. Julius Oppenheimer (his parents were German/Jewish), Albert Einstein (German/Jewish), Wernher von Braun (German/Christian), and all the scientists that came to the US as part of Harry Truman's CLIP initiative. On the American side there are countless scientists and engineers, I will only name the founders of Silicon Valley (since Silicon Valley seems to be the aching point here): Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (both graduated from Stanford University - that's in California USA - in 1935). Do I support a better education system in the US? Well that's relative. Most of the engineers, medics, and scientists that teach in the countries Dr. Kaku mentions in his remarks, obtained their degrees (Ba's, MsSc's, PhD's, MD's and ScD's) in the USA (Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Rice, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, etc etc etc). Moreover, all the countries he mentions are actually 3rd world countries (China IS a 3rd world country). So (using a bit of anti-logic here) if our existing "Grade School" system matches that of these 3rd world countries (the ones supplying the H1B candidates we so desperately need), then the answer is not in the H1B visa, but rather, making Higher Education (colleges and universities) FINANCIALLY accessible to our own American sons and daughters (very difficult for the great majority of Americans to pay for college without "having to sell body parts"). These universities taught the guys that are teaching the H1B candidates we are trying to bring in. My thoughts are that access to out top tier Colleges and Universities should not based on skin color, ethnicity, SAT score, religious belief or poverty level (we're all poor these days), but rather, the focus should be put our High School graduates' merits (science fair, internships, volunteering record) and their plain flat-out interest in the sciences (even if that interest is to merely call out a "Scotty beam me up" command). Hope this gives you a different and unbiased perspective on this aspect of our immigration system and needs, and as Dr. Kaku points out, always support legal immigration.
High speed rail. 70s. We still don't have it. We should be leader of graphene. The quantum computers. Robots. The world IS leaving us behind. Thanks D.C.
if you look at every advanced country, you can see that these countries were more successful than the others because they were quick to adapt to new changes. the US became number 1 because it progressed much faster than other countries by gathering as much information and knowledge as possible from people of different backgrounds. nationalism doesn't work any more. it's gone. those who stay the same will be obsolete in the future.
Matt you meant america had the strongest dollar so people came in droves, now the dollar is weak and and now we draw less of the top people ..its more economics than anything..
In case of US, they capitalised because of WWI and WWII, since Europe and long-reigning rich countries of Indian subcontinent and China were looted by British. *Because US was left alone, as it was nowhere in competition and most countries didn't care about it* it had a gap in history with no external pressure. And were able to move ahead. Since 1950's US livelihood rests on Indian, Japanese and Chinese scientists who contribute more to them than their own countrymen. FACT. After Banning of H1B (or limiting it), it is more or less evitable that US will lose its pole position as leader, which is anyways on the way.
america had a failing culture from the start, namely the culture of freedom. the freedom to smoke pot and remain noncompetitive and the free press that gives rights to agenda based medias who propagate twisted and false information for their own goals without being accountable for whatever shit they spread. america never had the core culture of progression. people weren't rich and prosperous by their own effort. they reaped the benefits of being untouched in the war thus automatically being the no.1 economy and healthy living condition, which resulted in opportunities for immigrants to succeed. america in turn draw the commission from the efforts of those immigrants/foreign expats, getting their "own" industry and market dominance. but now comes the time where the foreign force are returning, bringing back the expertise they learnt and helped created back to their own countries. its only time america face the music of having to compete with the world and sadly, they are still corrupted by their poisonous culture of being carefree and noncompetitive.
If nationalism has failed, then who do you think is best fit to govern since, since you feel that communities (groups of people who share the same values, whether ideological or traditional) can't in your eyes. Should it be the multi national corporation, who supersede state power, who's only value is to maximize profits above all else. Also why do you think the US has such a high rate of immigration, and not other rising powers such as: India, China, or Singapore. Because people believe in the "American Dream", a national concept, based on values seen as unique to America. Values shown on the corner of the US Seal, the 13 bundled arrows, rooted in Iroquois belief in indomitable unity. Immigrants came because they believed in the American ideal that together anything is possible.
this is a typical situation in every prosperous country. the government brings people and nationalize them because both the immigrant and the nation benefit from each other.
Nikola Tesla, Electrical and mechanical engineer/inventor - Austria Enrico Fermi, Physicist - Italy Albert Einstein, Physicist - Germany Albert Claude, Biologist - Belgium Gerty Cory, Biochemist - Czechoslovakia Just to name a few...
I factually know someone who recruits engineers for hi level work in the United States and they CAN NOT find the talent here and must get them abroad. Look at the engineers coming out of Germany and look at their educational system and how they accomplish such hi levels of success. It's ok to adopt models that work and we should.
I don't think you understand the problem. There is a difference when you go to China and pay for manufacturing - yes that manufacturing could be done here at a higher cost; but when it comes to hiring people for intelligence and skill then they are not taking your jobs when you have no one who can fil the position.
In a country of 300+ Million people there are bond to be a few stupid ones this fact can be applied not only to America. It can be applied to any other country as well however It starts with a decent education In witch we here In america have a failing educational system. I thought education sucked when I was growing up how ever It has gone down hill, very fast.
ImmortalChaos you're correct except one part. our educational system is not failing. it is doing exactly what it's designed to do; teach and condition children how to work in a manufacturing plant, or some other domestic job. the problem is those jobs no longer exist in America. the world is now a very different place than in the 1940s and we need new education. we don't have anymore factories we have labs and hospitals.
The One and Only great point the issue with schools teaching them such "Skills" is the skills they learn aren't really skills when I went to school they taught real skills.
A 4 minute clip can't do this subject any justice. Dr Kaku oversimplifies his message to meet media needs. The H1B system is deeply flawed and needs to be replaced (but not simply eliminated). We need a way to make science and engineering graduate students that come to the US schools citizens (not simply Visa holders). I believe I've heard Kaku say "staple a green card to every Masters and PhD" and I agree. Why replace the H1B? The largest users of the H1B system are currently Indian "body shops" (Infosys, Tata, WiPro) that do (provably) displace US workers (www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html?_r=0), (many) of these workers graduated from universities that would make DeVry look like Stanford (ask.metafilter.com/225511/Does-the-US-government-do-background-checks-on-your-education-when-issuing-work-visas). Dr. Kaku is correct that the US k-12 education *system* is deeply broken. This is also a more complex issue. Many of the "3rd world" countries with "better" education are teaching via rote memorization, that system of learning is useless in our modern age. We need "deep" learning. How do we fix this? 1) create a green card fast track program for foreign born STEM graduates in the US 2)move from a lottery system to a bidding system for H1B visas (removing the incentive for US companies to hire foreign workers simply to reduce perceived costs, but enable them to hire the best workers if they're willing to pay...why isn't the market system good for these companies?). 3)Fix our education system, we have to tools (Khan Academy, School in the Cloud) we're not using them.
You do realise that there wouldn't even BE a USA if there were no immigrants....... J Robert Oppenheimer, son of immigrants and the sole reason USA won WW2. Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai CEOs of Microsoft and Google respectively. Face it, your 'country' is built on the blood, sweat and tears of immigrants. Literally anything you say against them is invalid. But please, by all means, be stubborn and hurl racist slur at me, without any conducive proof that america owes them nothing. It shows what a low down, uneducated, little git you are. But, as someone wise once said "it's easier to argue with a clever person than a stupid one. At least clever ones have the basic brains to know when they're wrong."
Mine is grown now but didn't respond well to meds... As soon as he got out of school and off the meds, he became "normal" again, meaning nothing wrong with him.
I agree. A school without books is no school at all. Even more important, is that parents are failing to raise their children properly, morally, and in ensuring that they work hard to learn and do their homework.
Ha! I saw a whole IT department full of American citizens replaced by H-1b holders over the course of four months. Those Americans were all doing an excellent job, but they all lost their jobs. Mr. Kaku KNOWS this happens all the time. This has been going on for more than thirty years, and we wonder why American students don’t care about STEM? No rational parent is going to encourage their child to study STEM because there is ZERO job security and the pay SUCKS for the effort and skill required. I think it would be awesome if India and China became the leaders in tech development. This would give more opportunities to Indian and Chinese citizens to have a prosperous life. However, I GUARANTEE that India and China won’t import foreign workers - regardless of skills and costs.
大西ミシェル - That cracked me up! You also did me a favor, because you inspired me to look up the definition of “hearsay”, which I’ve always been a bit curious about.
Michio Kaku is one of the greatest physicists of our time. Just because his area of focus is theoretical physics doesn't mean he hasn't accomplished anything. He is well versed on ALL subjects, ranging from science to politics to history to mathematics and more. He is unique in that he is a genius but also a great speaker, with a gift for bringing science to the masses and making it fun and understandable so we can encourage children and teens to take an interest in science and bridge the education gap in the US. He is also a leader of string theory, which is the closest we've come so far to joining Einsteins theory of relativity with quantum physics.
mystic moon Education reform takes decades. You won't see the effects of education reform until a kid in kindergarten finishes undergrad. We should replace public school funding with the voucher system purposed by Dr. Milton Friedman, but don't expect positive results for 20+ years. In meantime, we need to import as many geniuses as possible.
American education system has not changed in many years. And it really won't... dumb people are easier to control.... Look at them. They just elected a conman to be their president coz he just told them what they wanted to hear.
Milton Friedman is the worst thing to happen to this country. His economic theories are bankrupting the people (while enriching the 1%), and his education theory is just as bankrupt and must be rejected! WE MUST GET BACK TO KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS.
In today's society, where bullshit is RAMPANT, speaking the truth itself can be considered an alternative type of education. Mr. Kaku did just that on this clip, simply awesome!!!
GreenGearMood trump getting elected is the latest evidence why affirmative action is in place. because even at his worst. a white man will still be chosen first.
That nervous laughter coming from the "esteemed colleague," signaled that he knew Brainiac was about to open a huge can of whip ass and there was little he could do.
Not any aspect of his unhinged diatribe had any remote relation to a "can of whoop ass" being opened. His vitriolic false-fest was laced with inaccuracies and indignation towards America. Let me know if you'd like me to explain further, otherwise, I won't waste my time.
+CoolPoppa Bell that 50$ per hour isn't the job that he is talking about.. That is a shitty job. Google and Apple don't have 50$ per hour pays.. cutting edge technologies don't have 50$ per hour jobs
It's not true. See my earlier post. These global corporations posing as American corporations use the H1b1 to their full advantage by cutting a lot of red tape and reaping all the profits.
Bull fucking shit. Here's a minimum market wage requirement when they hire h1b workers. After I graduated my minimum wage was 67k determined by department of labor. My employer had to pay that or not hire me.
And they are hiring them and paying them less than americans. Its to artificially keep wages low. And all the studies show that american engineers are the most intillegent in the world (better universities) so im not sure why youre belittling americans. Sure there are dumbs who watch the kardashians but the top minds in the US are leading innovation accross the globe.
SmashBrosBrawl If there are people who do the equivalent or better job for lower wages, they will absolutely hire those people. There is no reason not to. If American government tries to stop hiring people from abroad, they will move their development branches to a country that allows them to do so... like India or China. Did you forget what happened when the government tried to regulate the manufacturing industry by increasing environment related taxes and raising the minimum wage? All manufacturing branches moved to China, India and Bangladesh. Next thing you know Silicon Valley will be limited to marketing branches of tech companies. The real Silicon Valley will be in India. Any American who wishes to work in it will have to migrate there.
Scott Malkinson Wtf are you talking about moron, have you not seen China's pollution? That's what happens when there's no EPA regulations. Did you know breathing air in china (Cities) for one day is the equivalent of smoking 3 packs a day? Are you fucking stupid. We need to lower our standards? How many Chinese die everyday due to their shitty air pollution standards???
SmashBrosBrawl If you need clothes, technology and everything you have, someone has to make it... and it's China now. Oh POLLUTION, so terrible... yeah, you fucking pussies. People are doing absolutely fine there. I didn't know you had stopped dying altogether in the US because you sent your industries to China. You don't have to lower anything... as long as you don't have to, that is. If you continue pushing more industries outside because you think you are entitled to better environment and better pay, companies will continue to take their industries outside of your country... and your people will continue losing jobs and have more and more debt. Obviously, this is not sustainable. At some point, your economy will collapse. You can't import everything forever and do fine economically. At that point in time most of you won't be able to afford to import anything. You will have to start building your own shit again... and to make it affordable, you will have to lower wages and take down environmental regulations. Your downfall is inevitable. This would have already happened if China didn't trust the US with so much debt... which the American government lent to banks... who then lent it to failed businesses... whose failure is inevitable but you just borrowed some more time... so when your economy falls next time, it will fall from much higher cliff. Enjoy while it lasts.
He is wrong in 1 regard. the united states doesn't have the worst education system in the world the u.s education system is rated at number 7 on the top 25 list
Ive read around #10, but either way thats terrible for having the #1 economy. Ive also read Canada has the #1 on many lists, but the educational system isnt so great here either, I mean its ok, but it could be better.
Kaku does specifically refer to Ph. D candidates, although I think your criticism is valid. For what it's worth, Germany also has similar policies; one of the only ways to obtain a perminent visa is to have completed a technical degree in Germany.
The irony is that there was no irony.
lolol :D
Lol
Cheap labor for corparations
@Happy Dude you idiot wages are going due to immigration
@Happy Dude you don't live in the real world!! hb1 visas drive down wages Microsoft, Google, AMAZON....ect they all abuse the system which in turn hurts Americans. I'm a operating room nurse so my job is not going anywhere. But those other jobs are good high paying in the 80k+ range are given to hb1 holders but only paid 35k~ you are an idiot if you really think these companies or dogs in Washington care about the longterm success of our people.
I am foreign born and I agree with this man, I do not think Americans are inept but there is something definitely wrong with STEM education in primary, middle and high school.
+Phill Munyaradzi the US education ranks 5th and 29th in the world b two separate review. So what country is your countries rank!?
Woodycoat US College education is off the charts! BUT, I had 35 credits transferred from my High school for Math, Physics and Chemistry, and only needed to fulfill 85 credits to get a 4 year degree in Engineering. It tells you that were STEM is concerned I was 35 credits ahead of the average High School graduate in America. Not trying to condemn, criticize or burn, I just agree with what Dr Michio Kaku is saying. As a side note, I'm from a poor country and I obviously admired Americans a lot before arriving. I came to America to get educated by them, but I was disappointed that ALL my professors were foreigners. In a class of 45, 4 students were American. You might say it's an isolated case, but then again, it aligns with what Dr Michio Kaku is saying, and he is an expert.
Phill Munyaradzi no Kaku is an arrogant. clueless idiot. The O-1 non-immigrant visa and EB-1 immigrant visa types, also known as “Genius visas” and we offer very few because there are very few actual geniuses. The H1-B visa is a scam by corporate execs and Indian offshoring shops to steal middle class tech work by Americans who have to train their replacements because they're unqualified and to suppress tech wages.
The rich who live in the US do not want its population to be educated so they import "temporary" talent to help keep industry innovating but it also allows them to stay in power because they can still manipulate and control an inept citizenry.
Phill Munyaradzi - What you said sounds pretty common for foreign students in the U.S., but the real question is “Why?” To me, it’s obvious, in the United States, STEM jobs pay FAR less than other professional jobs AND STEM jobs require constantly learning new skills (without increasing compensation).
Also, foreign workers get compensation that can’t be given to Americans - the right to live and work in the United States. Americans are born with those rights.
50% of all PhD candidates in the USA are foreign born? I never knew this. I need to step my game up. I'm from Virginia. This guy is the MAN.
+Truthseeker182 because they get grants that locals don't, so its too expensive for us. If you have not seen this with your own eyes, you wont believe it. I work for a company that imports talentless guys, there are 4 of us and 12 of them. None of them are STEM and we are. They post jobs that never get filled (really?) and suddenly you see more of them.
I go to one of the best engineering schools for PhD. we have 80 PhD students in my department. 1 of them is American. The school constantly encourages seniors to join the grad program, but don't find American students.
+musikgirla and I will go there soon :) (from Brazil)
coptic777 You are assuming they are here because they are better than us. They're not, they are interns from banking...No science education whatsoever.
+musikgirla yea right, thats why 50% of PhD candidates are foreign. stupid.
All of America needs to hear this!
It is needed, but they are not showing it. Only a few know this video.
nobody can shut up a determined mind. Michio Kaku is truly an inspiration.
this was one of the most meaningful speeches I've ever heard
This guy tells the truth. I am from India an every educated Indian's dream is to go to America for better job opportunities. Thats why theres a lot of Brain Drain every year from our country. But in recent years, things have changed and people have understood their true potential. I wish our counrtry could get back all the engineers, doctors that we have lost in all these years. Only then the world can see our country's true potential....
+Arijit Deb it will happen in very short time.....everyone returns...india badly needs reverse brain drain..at this point
+Arijit Deb The US educational index is 0.890, India's is 0.473 well below the top 100 countries. So no this guy is NOT telling the truth
Your country has a billion people I'm sure there are a surplus of intelligent and capable individuals
This is why I have a serious problem with what he's saying. India is a still a developing nation and I have no problem with India becoming as advanced as the US. He is a promoting a globalist agenda that helps only global corporations and immigrants seeking profit while damaging the prospects of India and American college graduates.
Yea, and when India grows and have better technology America will then start a trade and tech war accusing India of IP theft.
Hear Hear Dr Kaku!!! I've been teaching Maths, Physics and IT in the UK for almost 20 years and, the education here is in a serious state! I've always wondered why it is that America and Britain, two of the worlds most innovative, creative and scientific countries back in the day, decided one day to give all that up and create economies based on cheap credit, consumerism and services... And would rather other countries make the things we need at extortionately low cost and prices. This insane doctrine makes NO sense and now, with consumer debt at unstable levels and the economies of both countries at the edge of the Abyss, now we begin to realize, late in the day, that having a highly educated society that's skilled at all the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is a DAMN GOOD THING!!! Not only for our country's economic survival but also for the good and well being of it's citizens. I mean, America was landing men on the moon back in the late 60's and early 70's yet, recently, there's been all this religious mumbo-jumbo, like Intelligent Design being promoted. Another danger of scientific illiteracy is more religious fundamentalism and nonsense (and more crap reality TV!!!). It's time to put a stop to this intellectual rot unless we WANT the East to dominate us over the next century or so.
Mr. Doe, regarding the statement "scientific countries back in the day, decided one day to give all that up and create economies based on cheap credit", the specific problem with the "scientific countries" Can be traced directly to Washington DC and 10 Downing Street as they take their orders from Bilderberg (aka the .001%)
He's written 7 books about physics, He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). He co-founded string field theory, a subset of string theory. He has had over 70 articles published in physics journals and He made a Particle Accelerator when he was 17
Brilliant
If you have the money and the necessary resources, anyone can build a particle accelerator
@@KhiemNguyen-fw4jb From your comment it is clear that you do not have the brain to do in 100years what he did as a teen with limited resources that he got at that time...
University of Phoenix has Ph.D.'s on clearance right now for 100K.
When New York listed the top 100 smartest person in the city and Lady Gaga was one of them along with Michio Kaku you know there's something wrong there
Is that fr?
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huh?
Being a singer do not make you stupid the same way like being a professor do not make you extremely smart...
And i am unable to find in google this list... most likely you got something wrong, probably it was a list of celebrities as this professor was in TV programs.
No wonder my friends and I noticed that >90% of the engineering professors are also foreign born
And they all uses the metric system!
I went to CUNY for my Engineering degree. The entire department was consist of foreign born students and professors. It was awesome.
Is it awesome that they outsource talent or engage in nepotism, meaning that they only hire or share job opportunities among their own people, and not with Americans that let them in?
I've always noticed that in special effects programs, the credits are full of names that seem to originate from other countries where the education system is extremely better.
I studied bachelors in Loyola college, India. And I’m studying right now in America. I can easily see the difference. Education system and students’ smartness in India is light year ahead of here.
Which city
@@dadapeerz NYC
@@impermanence5206 I asked in India
@@dadapeerz Chennai.
@@impermanence5206 ok bro
Dropping knowledge bombs.
+Ian Mignone great comment, sir
+Ian Mignone Let's bring Freedom™ to the American Educational System!
Kaku is biased as hell. Don't think for one second that you're getting the whole story.
ignorance bombs, if you're talking about Kaku.
@@gwho you're American 🤣
It starts with elementary school,,the system passes F students to reach a quota and if they don't understand the basic math principles, how can a student keep progressing!...I have students in High School who do not know their multiplication tables, so they cannot fathom algebra. Without the basic tools it's impossible to achieve an A in Calculus!!!!!!!!!!
This actually depends, not on the understanding of the students but from their potential. I have dyslexia and adhd both contribute in my learning disorder. Eventhough I have an iq that can be consider as genius, I'm failing all kinds of subjects in school. For many years I try to cope with them, and finally I can beat these learning disorder when I'm in highschool. I only learn multiplication in highschool and when I finished highschool I got straight A and granted a scholarship.
So better than looking at their grades, see their potential to study. Many people said that iq not a good measurements of intelligent, and it's not. It's show the potential of the person, and a glimpse of their future.
Most of them are from India and China.... I don't know why people are so fascinated about USA...
USA=money+lifestyle
JOB
Because USA provides everything else
There's a lot fo land, lots of properties, good justice system, property rights
and they invest in ruining those systems in India, so that our people go to their lands to work for them and help run and grow companies like google, facebook, microsoft there.
MICHIO KAKU IS SOMEHOW A GENIUS IN HIS ARGUMENT... TRUE! GENIUS VISA IS QUITE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICA GREATNESS.
thank you!!!!! I needed this in high school.
"the irony is, the irony is, the irony is......" just stop, bro
The man couldn't bear listening & almost chocked on his water xD
I am really offended by his opinion about American students vs students of developing countries in doing math. This is insulting to developing countries. American education in stem fields is really bad. As an international student, the math of GRE to get to graduate level is a joke. It is at the same level as high school math. I got 800 out of 800 while my field is in architecture. The education system even in American universities sucks too. It is not free... In my country education is free for student from elementary school to PhD level. In the US they don't classify students based on their talents and hardwork. The admission and scholarships is given to people who has networking or rich parents.
What school is it? Quite an interesting thought.
More like scholarships and admission are given to underprivileged minorities. "scholarships is given to people who has networking." Speak and write the English language properly if you want to lecture us about how intelligent you are. You are the Dunning-Krueger effect exemplified.
You’re dumb as hell for saying that-_- college nowadays isn’t what it used to be in the 20th century. Nowadays it’s all about the connections, it’s all about being social. Hence more and more people have increasing realized that college is a scam and although you can still go to college for stem, accounting, the trades etc... they also have a bunch of dumbass majors that are designed to take as much money as possible from your bank such as gender studies. Especially when you consider the fact that parents are constantly pushing their kids for college without thinking what’s ahead of them and a bunch of 19-20 year olds taking out loans for shit that they don’t need just for the experience only to graduate with a communications degree.
Thats why US sucks at this
@@TwinkyGlitten >> More like scholarships and admission are given to underprivileged minorities.
Who is here after Trump banned H1-B visas??
Exactly why I came back to this video
Loooool....love the Internet
YEP.
Fuck Trump
Right
Both have such good points, designing first year classes to be flunk out courses wastes potential when the student might have been going through rough times
Lol people! 12% scientists , 38% doctors, 36% nasa employees, 34% employees at microsoft, 28% IBM employees are all indians!
Social Engineering is one of the most important subjects we have.
When I was getting my Master's in Computer Science in 2000, there were 13 people in total, graduating with MS in CS in Summer A semester. The rumor was that 12 of the 13 Master's graduates were Chinese and 1 was American. People were surprised that the one American (me?) was an immigrant too.. Dr. Michio Kaku is 100% right.
Of the 240,000 people employed in the US semiconductor industry, 40% are foreign-born. Of that 40%, the majority are by far ethnic Chinese. Returnee expertise more than any other factor - including the vicious slander of IP theft, explains the rise of both the Chinese and Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
The H1B issue is self perpetuating. The problem is not that America doesn't have any smart people. The problem is that our economy rewards the wrong things. What American kid is going to bust his hump through an Electrical Engineering program so that he can start at $70K when his aunt that barely graduated high school is making $225K a year as a real estate agent? We have become a largely transaction based economy. So difficult majors are less appealing. So then we bring in MORE H1B people because no matter how little they will pay a guy from India in America, it's still a ton better than anything that he could hope for in India. So wages are further eroded and round and round it goes. This is not legal but it is reality.
Then America should fixed the H1B instead of get rid of it. I don't think highly educated immigrants are related to the problem you mentioned. H1B should be for those people.
nice try with your stupid analogy but the reality is anyone making 70k in the USA is earning a wage above the 75 percentile of the population. So your "example" of the real estate agent making 225k is far from common/reality which would put somebody at the 95 percentile... in case you are not clear what that means that means that they are earning more than 95% of the working population.
"Sociology majors are not going to be the ones necessarily determining the future of Silicon Valley" 🔥🔥🔥
I feel like sociology majors think they are the most important people on earth
Sociology isn't even science, its soft science at best.
Arnmazing if it doesn’t invoke chemistry it’s not a science. Sociology is the field where tou make up your own stuff and try to prove it
They will if they all the baristas band together and start poisoning the coffee. I’m operating under the assumption that lost sociology majors end up as baristas.
Silicon Valley is already dying. Shenzhen is already becoming the next SiliconValley right now and its where all companies are relocating to as we speak.
stating that most h1B visas go to high-level candidates is not very accurate either.
But even their low-level candidates seem to be smarter than our high-level ones.
Mishima You don't know that.
"But even their low-level candidates SEEM to be smarter than our high-level ones."
Mishima You don't know that either
A11YourBas3 I know, I am acknowledging that. That's why I emphasized the word seem as I quoted myself up there. It seems that way, and it is that way, are two very different statements.
Not just engineers and physicists, but really anything in STEM.
Excellent observation. I had not thought of that!
it is amazing how one of the greatest scientists is a japanese
Why? Japanese people are smart.
Not Japan-born, just ethnically Japanese. Racists only see skin colour. There are clever people of every race. It's the educational system in question here. I'm a retired high school teacher (maths/bio/chem) from M'sia with one of the worse government run educational systems in the world. Education around the world has become monetised esp at tertiary level (utilitarian). The bottom line then is profit, smoke and mirrors, not real holistic education.
Japan is the country with the most nobel prizes in asia.. NAND flash, lithium ion battery and blue LED are all japanese inventions
Dr. Kaku on Fire 🔥
Every single study I've seen on this topic debunks this theory.
The last round of this talking point was that we didn't have enough STEM graduates, and then studies came out showing we had plenty of STEM graduates, but companies simply do not want to pay them, and older people in academia basically never retire anymore, so there are no jobs for them to gain experience there.
Another claim was that the US is failing to produce engineers at the rate China does, and then you look into the data and they are comparing US bachelors degrees in engineering to what are basically associates, or 2 year degrees in China, and calling them both "engineers." It fits the "America sucks at everything now" mindset a lot of people have, but it's totally been debunked now.
wowspare Lmfao you're only talking about the STEM field. And show me the studies.
The Chinese graduate in 2 years? Because they study all day and night. And they come out with on par or better knowledge. How can they do it? Cause the Asians master your 12th grade math and science in their grade 8 classes. You have no fucking idea how absolute garbage american educational system is compared to other smart countries.
Also how many of the so called "US grads/phd's" are foreign born? Do you know how to even look at academic studies?
There is a huge lack of native-born Americans that have the aptitude or competence to compete for jobs that need intellectual competency. Foreign students that study in USA, from countries like China (including cities like Hong Kong and Macao), South Korea, Japan, and many developed European countries, excel in all fields of academia, arts, and technological innovation. He is correct in saying that the US educational system is creating a generation of dummies and that can be proved by raw, hard statistics. The US ranks 35th on the PISA test and cannot even meet G7, or G20 standards in academic development. And the US keeps climbing down the ladder every year.
And it's intentional.
Isn't this an argument against immigration? Don't you think these countries need these so-called geniuses need these people in their own countries?
"Learn or perish." I think that this is the real reason why Americans are so behind. American students, particularly K-12 students have this cushion under them. A crapload of money is pumped into public education but the students are told that being mediocre in math/science is "ok." Across the ocean India, students are told that if they dont perform to a certain level, they will be beaten in front of their peers. The good students also bully up on and beat on the bad students.
The attitude even persists when the students arrive stateside to pursue their masters degrees. The student on a visa knows that if he does not outperform his/her peers to the point where they can get hired just a few weeks after they graduate, they wont have anyone to sponsor their visa and they will be sent back to china or india.
Learn or perish.
Congratulations Michio Kaku.... You are one of a few that tells the truth.
I have taught college in Central America and in the United States for most of my working life. In the college where I taught in the US, more than 75% of the students should never have graduated from junior high let alone high school. Our Academic Dean told us if we didn't pass black students, our adjunct teaching contracts wouldn't be renewed. I told her I had students that missed 38 questions out of 40 on the Final Exam and she said it didn't matter.
Jews put women in positions of power to enforce communism. Promoting the unproductive at the expense of the productive.
Although I do agree with Dr. Kaku, I believe it's a combination of our public education system not working as well as our American culture not emphasizing education enough. Look at all the inner city kids and ask them what they want to be in the future. You'll RARELY hear any one of them say anything different than a celebrity of some sort - whether it's music, modeling, acting, or sports. Ask kids who live in suburban areas that same question and you'll still find the same answer, but not to a degree in which you find in inner city students. I've attended inner city public schools as well as suburban and have seen the difference in the emphasis of education. However, education is also subpar. Our school system teaches the kids to follow orders; basically they're learning what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. The biggest problem is the education system doesn't teach students why they should do what they do. It's set up to make future generations become workers and employees, not necessarily leaders, innovators, and creators.
John D. Rockefeller (one of the founders of modern education) - I want a nation of workers, not a nation of thinkers.
Dr. Kaku is partially right. Yes, many American companies benefited immensely from smart H1B workers who went on to become american citizens. Without H1B these guys would have returned to their home countries and would have given a tough competition to american companies. But these smart guys and talented PhDs constitute only a small percentage of the H1B workers. Majority of the H1B employees are not smart or highly skilled. They are cheap, obedient Indian IT consultants. They take up most of the H1B visas and many smart guys with PhDs from top schools would have to return to their home countries because of H1B applications reaching its camp within a short period. Under the disguise of smart and highly skilled many cheap IT laborers are taking up the H1B visas and displacing the Americans from their jobs. The systems needs an overhaul where it ranks people based on merit.
+RK The point with cheap,obedient indian IT consultants is not his point at all,you cant say he is partially right,why partially,He talks about the scientific establishment and why h1b visa is important, for it.
What you and dr Kaku are trying to point out is totally different,The problem for the point you state out is because of USA employers only,they are not required to show any proof when hiring a foreign worker as a more qualified than an american worker.Also under this visa no american worker is replaceable but it happens,So people should really be criticizing the employers who sort this trick to cheapen their costs because many people now really have wrong idea with h1B,without knowing how important it really is to the country.
BUll fucking shit, go do some research on H1B than comment.
thats the problem of American people. they dont know shit and still like to showing they dont know shit
H1B have a Min wage requirement which is 67k.
They still displace middle income analysts, developers, etc and have to be trained by the Americans that get laid off. So Bull fucking shit on your comment. You don't know shit. Just google Disney tech and how the H1-B visa scam has allowed them to layoff thousands of talented skilled American employees for exactly what RK mentioned.
Dr. Kaku said H1B visa program is great because many foreign born scientists are using it stay back in the US. My point is the percentage of such scientists is very small, may be like 5%. The rest of the visas are taken by cheap Indian IT consultants. So one can't show the small 5% scientists to justify the 95% abuse of the visa program. The H1B visa program requires an overhaul where it would grant visas only to talented people and not cheap labour.
@ LEE ROL.
$ 67 k is cheap when you compare that with an average american worker would expect with a degree in engineering. I would say the cost of an american worker would be about $100 K.
Yes, I agree. The education system in the US needs a complete overhaul.
I love this Dr. Very smart man.
My son studied engineering at Liverpool university and I assumed his classmates would be like mine when I went to university. I was surprised to find that 80% were Chinese (and spoke Chinese but did not socialise, 10% were Japanese so they didn’t get on with the Chinese, the rest were uk. Most of those from overseas went back when they graduated. If you have ever dealt with mainland Chinese you will know why they go to the UK for their education. Teaching is not their forte and it takes generations to build an education system to produce the kind of people Dr Kanu is talking about.
For a people like the Chinese who on average have IQs about 5 points higher than us in the west, it’s just a matter of time before they eclipse us.
The reason more foreign trained scientists exist and are better trained and educated is because most of them have completely free education. So while parents in North America have to mortgage their homes, and students have to be in debt for life, just to be educated and get to the Ph.D. level. Many other nations offer fully subsidized education right up to the Ph.D. level, and they even pay for the students living expenses and food. They come out with no debt, no stress.
So America will never be able to compete with that. As long as education costs people six figures to pursue it, and be under a mountain of debt while their international cohorts get a free ride, it will never change.
Probably because the same funds we'd be taking from them are the same funds used to fund those potential H1B employee's discovering complex military technology lol
+fa11234 Let us not forget that these achieving students have parental involvement in their lives and these children have been disciplined from an early age by parents who are disciplined themselves and serve as role models.
+Dorfler In European countries as well as Asian countries there are three educational systems and they make no apologies for which educational system a child is assigned. School is 6 days a week. Before secondary school a student takes an aptitude test to determine what route he or she will go. Those with the highest scores will go to a Baccalauréat Lycée or Gymnasium in France and Germany., A-Levels School and similar programs with different names in other countries. These students are prepared for university education for scientific, medical, psychology, literary and academic careers. These universities are generally free ( not all) but only students who have the specialized educational preparation are admitted. Students who have median aptitude are sent to secondary education which prepares them for college level education in fields such as nursing, linguistic and translator careers, public school educators, art degrees, technical degrees and business degrees. Those who score near the median and below are sent to basic secondary education and trade schools.The government makes no apologies or exclusions. They won't waste money on higher education for those with less aptitude.
+Dorfler In European countries as well as Asian countries there are three educational systems and they make no apologies for which educational system a child is assigned. School is 6 days a week. Before secondary school a student takes an aptitude test to determine what route he or she will go. Those with the highest scores will go to a Baccalauréat Lycée or Gymnasium in France and Germany., A-Levels School and similar programs with different names in other countries. These students are prepared for university education for scientific, medical, psychology, literary and academic careers. These universities are generally free ( not all) but only students who have the specialized educational preparation are admitted. Students who have median aptitude are sent to secondary education which prepares them for college level education in fields such as nursing, linguistic and translator careers, public school educators, art degrees, technical degrees and business degrees. Those who score near the median and below are sent to basic secondary education and trade schools.The government makes no apologies or exclusions. They won't waste money on higher education for those with less aptitude.
+Dorfler I think what you said is true. However, it is one of the many factors. As many must have known, graduate students in the PhD programs are paid a stipend, however little. Their tuitions are paid for by the research funding. Also importantly, as Dr. Kaku pointed out, it is not PhD graduates from foreign countries that matters a lot, it's students who come to the U.S. to study for their PhD programs that matters. We have to keep in mind that foreign PhD credentials have credentialing and authentication issues. The reason a higher proportion of foreign-born students participate in science and engineering PhD programs is because the high school system in their native countries are very competitive compared with our US high school systems. By "competitive" I mean survival of the fittest - due to the limited number of college seats relative to the size of the populations competing to get in. Many countries' high school curricula exceed the first 1.5 years of college level problem solving skills in math and sciences. If we compare, for example, the past Hong Kong Advanced Level Math/Physics/Chemistry test questions and syllabi with those of AP Math/Physics/Chemistry, we will discover many striking differences. Their bachelor level knowledge overlaps with our Master level knowledge and skill sets. Of course, there are always exceptions. There are very intelligent and very unintelligent people in every country.
This is true. My wife has her PhD and she isn’t from here. I actually dropped out of college because the cost to pursue a PhD in my field(physics, nano tech engineer) was so costly and the amount of pay that you get in research science is so laughable that it didn’t seem like a logical decision. Not only that, nobody, at least at the time, was really funding nano tech. It probably still isn’t because furthering nano tech would make products last longer and people would live longer. That’s two things the US doesn’t seem to want since it will put certain corporations out of business or at least give them a substantial blow to their massive money making potential. A side note, I actually make way more money in a government job that requires no college education. I actually make more money than a lot of the college graduates that I know personally. So he is right that the education system is screwed up.
this man gives me hope
why cant those other countries train their own PHDs?
Patiently waiting for when voters on both party lines realize that they're nowhere near top priority in their respective organizations.
This never gets old!!
this is the realest shit i have ever heard we need more engineers not less
I never thought I'd hear Michio Kaku say "DUUUH!". :D
I suppose Dr. Kaku's comments reflect the United States of America of the 1980's; prior to globalization and the technological developments of the last 20 years relating to telecommunications, video conferencing, cloud computing and virtual spaces. I can easily hire an engineer in Hyderabad, Manila, Zhong Guan Cun, Sao Paulo, Guadalajara, Santiago de Chile, Prague, Budapest or Palo Alto, without having to move the "brain" around, paying a lower fee and ultimate reducing operational costs.
As a matter of fact, the engineering and scientific feats of the US in the last 150 years have come not from H1B holders but legal immigrants who came to the US and stayed in the US, or American citizens educated in the US system (still happening today). Just to name a few of most notorious non-H1B holding Americans we have: Nikola Tesla (the greatest mind in all history of humanity - Croatian/Christian), Dr. Julius Oppenheimer (his parents were German/Jewish), Albert Einstein (German/Jewish), Wernher von Braun (German/Christian), and all the scientists that came to the US as part of Harry Truman's CLIP initiative. On the American side there are countless scientists and engineers, I will only name the founders of Silicon Valley (since Silicon Valley seems to be the aching point here): Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (both graduated from Stanford University - that's in California USA - in 1935).
Do I support a better education system in the US? Well that's relative. Most of the engineers, medics, and scientists that teach in the countries Dr. Kaku mentions in his remarks, obtained their degrees (Ba's, MsSc's, PhD's, MD's and ScD's) in the USA (Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Rice, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, etc etc etc).
Moreover, all the countries he mentions are actually 3rd world countries (China IS a 3rd world country). So (using a bit of anti-logic here) if our existing "Grade School" system matches that of these 3rd world countries (the ones supplying the H1B candidates we so desperately need), then the answer is not in the H1B visa, but rather, making Higher Education (colleges and universities) FINANCIALLY accessible to our own American sons and daughters (very difficult for the great majority of Americans to pay for college without "having to sell body parts"). These universities taught the guys that are teaching the H1B candidates we are trying to bring in.
My thoughts are that access to out top tier Colleges and Universities should not based on skin color, ethnicity, SAT score, religious belief or poverty level (we're all poor these days), but rather, the focus should be put our High School graduates' merits (science fair, internships, volunteering record) and their plain flat-out interest in the sciences (even if that interest is to merely call out a "Scotty beam me up" command).
Hope this gives you a different and unbiased perspective on this aspect of our immigration system and needs, and as Dr. Kaku points out, always support legal immigration.
THE AMERICANS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LISTENING TO THE OTHER PARTY IN CONVERSATIONS.
Brilliant man, speaking with passion and conviction, in a way anyone who wants to can understand.
My first years of college for electrical engineering made me quit. 2 years of ludicrously hard math I never even got to sniff ONE Engineering class.
im having the opposite problem. i love math and computer science and my chem and physics classes are killing me. 😔
I can't even start reading your comments. I make strange pauses in my head. It's not clear at all.
High speed rail. 70s. We still don't have it. We should be leader of graphene. The quantum computers. Robots. The world IS leaving us behind. Thanks D.C.
if you look at every advanced country, you can see that these countries were more successful than the others because they were quick to adapt to new changes. the US became number 1 because it progressed much faster than other countries by gathering as much information and knowledge as possible from people of different backgrounds. nationalism doesn't work any more. it's gone. those who stay the same will be obsolete in the future.
Matt you meant america had the strongest dollar so people came in droves, now the dollar is weak and and now we draw less of the top people ..its more economics than anything..
In case of US, they capitalised because of WWI and WWII, since Europe and long-reigning rich countries of Indian subcontinent and China were looted by British. *Because US was left alone, as it was nowhere in competition and most countries didn't care about it* it had a gap in history with no external pressure. And were able to move ahead. Since 1950's US livelihood rests on Indian, Japanese and Chinese scientists who contribute more to them than their own countrymen.
FACT.
After Banning of H1B (or limiting it), it is more or less evitable that US will lose its pole position as leader, which is anyways on the way.
america had a failing culture from the start, namely the culture of freedom. the freedom to smoke pot and remain noncompetitive and the free press that gives rights to agenda based medias who propagate twisted and false information for their own goals without being accountable for whatever shit they spread. america never had the core culture of progression. people weren't rich and prosperous by their own effort. they reaped the benefits of being untouched in the war thus automatically being the no.1 economy and healthy living condition, which resulted in opportunities for immigrants to succeed. america in turn draw the commission from the efforts of those immigrants/foreign expats, getting their "own" industry and market dominance. but now comes the time where the foreign force are returning, bringing back the expertise they learnt and helped created back to their own countries. its only time america face the music of having to compete with the world and sadly, they are still corrupted by their poisonous culture of being carefree and noncompetitive.
Too much knowledge is a disability.
If nationalism has failed, then who do you think is best fit to govern since, since you feel that communities (groups of people who share the same values, whether ideological or traditional) can't in your eyes. Should it be the multi national corporation, who supersede state power, who's only value is to maximize profits above all else. Also why do you think the US has such a high rate of immigration, and not other rising powers such as: India, China, or Singapore. Because people believe in the "American Dream", a national concept, based on values seen as unique to America. Values shown on the corner of the US Seal, the 13 bundled arrows, rooted in Iroquois belief in indomitable unity. Immigrants came because they believed in the American ideal that together anything is possible.
Kaku nailed it
2:43 *fixes jacket jacket like a boss* "my work here is done ;)"
A great read and so true! That woman deserves about TEN medals!
yeap, Dr. Michio Kaku is right
I wonder why all Of my physicians have an accent
this is a typical situation in every prosperous country. the government brings people and nationalize them because both the immigrant and the nation benefit from each other.
Nikola Tesla, Electrical and mechanical engineer/inventor - Austria
Enrico Fermi, Physicist - Italy
Albert Einstein, Physicist - Germany
Albert Claude, Biologist - Belgium
Gerty Cory, Biochemist - Czechoslovakia
Just to name a few...
I factually know someone who recruits engineers for hi level work in the United States and they CAN NOT find the talent here and must get them abroad. Look at the engineers coming out of Germany and look at their educational system and how they accomplish such hi levels of success. It's ok to adopt models that work and we should.
I don't think you understand the problem. There is a difference when you go to China and pay for manufacturing - yes that manufacturing could be done here at a higher cost; but when it comes to hiring people for intelligence and skill then they are not taking your jobs when you have no one who can fil the position.
I consider myself a talented programmer. Why do they hire Chinese and Koreans over me?
I think both these guys have great points. Above all, this country needs more intelligence and common sense
Exactly
Not common sense. This country needs good sense.
In a country of 300+ Million people there are bond to be a few stupid ones this fact can be applied not only to America. It can be applied to any other country as well however It starts with a decent education In witch we here In america have a failing educational system. I thought education sucked when I was growing up how ever It has gone down hill, very fast.
ImmortalChaos you're correct except one part. our educational system is not failing. it is doing exactly what it's designed to do; teach and condition children how to work in a manufacturing plant, or some other domestic job. the problem is those jobs no longer exist in America. the world is now a very different place than in the 1940s and we need new education. we don't have anymore factories we have labs and hospitals.
The One and Only great point the issue with schools teaching them such "Skills" is the skills they learn aren't really skills when I went to school they taught real skills.
You are exactly what Prof. Kaku is talking about!
A 4 minute clip can't do this subject any justice. Dr Kaku oversimplifies his message to meet media needs. The H1B system is deeply flawed and needs to be replaced (but not simply eliminated).
We need a way to make science and engineering graduate students that come to the US schools citizens (not simply Visa holders). I believe I've heard Kaku say "staple a green card to every Masters and PhD" and I agree.
Why replace the H1B? The largest users of the H1B system are currently Indian "body shops" (Infosys, Tata, WiPro) that do (provably) displace US workers (www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html?_r=0), (many) of these workers graduated from universities that would make DeVry look like Stanford (ask.metafilter.com/225511/Does-the-US-government-do-background-checks-on-your-education-when-issuing-work-visas).
Dr. Kaku is correct that the US k-12 education *system* is deeply broken. This is also a more complex issue. Many of the "3rd world" countries with "better" education are teaching via rote memorization, that system of learning is useless in our modern age. We need "deep" learning.
How do we fix this? 1) create a green card fast track program for foreign born STEM graduates in the US 2)move from a lottery system to a bidding system for H1B visas (removing the incentive for US companies to hire foreign workers simply to reduce perceived costs, but enable them to hire the best workers if they're willing to pay...why isn't the market system good for these companies?). 3)Fix our education system, we have to tools (Khan Academy, School in the Cloud) we're not using them.
We need to copy Finland and remove subjects from schools!!
Here after the election results to find solace.
Shania Mitra lol good1, Donald trump won't touch H1B relax
Shania Mitra lol good1, Donald trump won't touch H1B relax
Juan Primos lol. u might have to send back half the CEOs too if u hate immigrants n H1B.
Yeah we will be making India Great again,son.
You do realise that there wouldn't even BE a USA if there were no immigrants.......
J Robert Oppenheimer, son of immigrants and the sole reason USA won WW2.
Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai CEOs of Microsoft and Google respectively.
Face it, your 'country' is built on the blood, sweat and tears of immigrants. Literally anything you say against them is invalid.
But please, by all means, be stubborn and hurl racist slur at me, without any conducive proof that america owes them nothing. It shows what a low down, uneducated, little git you are.
But, as someone wise once said "it's easier to argue with a clever person than a stupid one. At least clever ones have the basic brains to know when they're wrong."
Mine is grown now but didn't respond well to meds... As soon as he got out of school and off the meds, he became "normal" again, meaning nothing wrong with him.
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Love this man.
As long as we get the smartest people, it doesn't matter where they come on. (Most of them certainly won't be natives)
And then they leave back to their native countries.
@@solomonnorman5126 Or at least be loyal and don't steal/smuggle technology from the US.
I agree. A school without books is no school at all. Even more important, is that parents are failing to raise their children properly, morally, and in ensuring that they work hard to learn and do their homework.
Bro he just smack that dude with that comment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ha! I saw a whole IT department full of American citizens replaced by H-1b holders over the course of four months. Those Americans were all doing an excellent job, but they all lost their jobs.
Mr. Kaku KNOWS this happens all the time. This has been going on for more than thirty years, and we wonder why American students don’t care about STEM? No rational parent is going to encourage their child to study STEM because there is ZERO job security and the pay SUCKS for the effort and skill required.
I think it would be awesome if India and China became the leaders in tech development. This would give more opportunities to Indian and Chinese citizens to have a prosperous life. However, I GUARANTEE that India and China won’t import foreign workers - regardless of skills and costs.
Hearsay. That’s illegal.
大西ミシェル - That cracked me up! You also did me a favor, because you inspired me to look up the definition of “hearsay”, which I’ve always been a bit curious about.
Michio Kaku is one of the greatest physicists of our time. Just because his area of focus is theoretical physics doesn't mean he hasn't accomplished anything. He is well versed on ALL subjects, ranging from science to politics to history to mathematics and more. He is unique in that he is a genius but also a great speaker, with a gift for bringing science to the masses and making it fun and understandable so we can encourage children and teens to take an interest in science and bridge the education gap in the US. He is also a leader of string theory, which is the closest we've come so far to joining Einsteins theory of relativity with quantum physics.
The state of America's science denial is so bad now, we are already approaching a collapse from all directions.
Make immigration easier so instead of going back, these people stay and invest into United States!
Improve education in US. It is in deplorable state
mystic moon What does this mean?
mystic moon Education reform takes decades. You won't see the effects of education reform until a kid in kindergarten finishes undergrad. We should replace public school funding with the voucher system purposed by Dr. Milton Friedman, but don't expect positive results for 20+ years. In meantime, we need to import as many geniuses as possible.
American education system has not changed in many years. And it really won't... dumb people are easier to control.... Look at them. They just elected a conman to be their president coz he just told them what they wanted to hear.
Milton Friedman is the worst thing to happen to this country. His economic theories are bankrupting the people (while enriching the 1%), and his education theory is just as bankrupt and must be rejected! WE MUST GET BACK TO KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS.
vote Michio Kaku for prez!
+hap0n Did you know Michio Kaku is a liar? Here's proof:www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
He wasn't born here, he can't be president
@@DavidPigbody and that's the problem
@@DavidPigbody He WAS born here. Dr. Michio Kaku was born in San Jose, California.
@@focusconcentration8 oh, dunno why i assumed he wasn't born here. i stand corrected
that guy just got schooled... lol
In today's society, where bullshit is RAMPANT, speaking the truth itself can be considered an alternative type of education. Mr. Kaku did just that on this clip, simply awesome!!!
Michio Kaku," BRING IT ON!!. "
Wow, this is amazing, I had no idea!!!
Makes so much sense too!
From Michigan, and the education SUCKED, knew i was a scam from the get ...
First thing the educational system needs to ditch is Affirmative Action.
If affirmative action is ditched, there will be only Indians and Chinese in Ivy League schools. Whites and Blacks are too dumb to be in Ivy Leagues
What an obnoxious comment.
Don't defend affirmative action for any reason.
GreenGearMood trump getting elected is the latest evidence why affirmative action is in place. because even at his worst. a white man will still be chosen first.
As I said. Don't defend it for any reason.
GreenGearMood great rebuttal chap. you'll do well in life
interestingly enough, I've seen a lot of foreigners stay in california on these visas and they're working for $12 an hour in LA.
Not PHD candidates. Listen to what he is saying.
That nervous laughter coming from the "esteemed colleague," signaled that he knew Brainiac was about to open a huge can of whip ass and there was little he could do.
Not any aspect of his unhinged diatribe had any remote relation to a "can of whoop ass" being opened. His vitriolic false-fest was laced with inaccuracies and indignation towards America. Let me know if you'd like me to explain further, otherwise, I won't waste my time.
Why pay an American 50$ per hour, while you can pay a foreigner 30$ per hour. That's why the tech companies support the H1-b Visa, genius.
+CoolPoppa Bell that 50$ per hour isn't the job that he is talking about.. That is a shitty job. Google and Apple don't have 50$ per hour pays.. cutting edge technologies don't have 50$ per hour jobs
+CoolPoppa Bell lol that's not how it works. There are not enough Americans who can do these top level tech jobs. It's not even about the pay.
It's not true. See my earlier post. These global corporations posing as American corporations use the H1b1 to their full advantage by cutting a lot of red tape and reaping all the profits.
+CoolPoppa Bell Yes, that's why the CEO of Microsoft and Google are both indian
Bull fucking shit. Here's a minimum market wage requirement when they hire h1b workers. After I graduated my minimum wage was 67k determined by department of labor. My employer had to pay that or not hire me.
Where is the original full length discussion? Anyone knows? :)
+Jake See search for : Are We Ready For the Coming 'Age of Abundance?' - Dr. Michio Kaku (Full)
YEAH! Dr. Michio Kaku. You THE MAN!
We have a shortage of workers, thats why we need a H-1b.
Thats why Microsoft just laid off 18,000 workers. We need more immigrants.
And they are hiring them and paying them less than americans. Its to artificially keep wages low. And all the studies show that american engineers are the most intillegent in the world (better universities) so im not sure why youre belittling americans. Sure there are dumbs who watch the kardashians but the top minds in the US are leading innovation accross the globe.
SmashBrosBrawl If there are people who do the equivalent or better job for lower wages, they will absolutely hire those people. There is no reason not to. If American government tries to stop hiring people from abroad, they will move their development branches to a country that allows them to do so... like India or China.
Did you forget what happened when the government tried to regulate the manufacturing industry by increasing environment related taxes and raising the minimum wage? All manufacturing branches moved to China, India and Bangladesh.
Next thing you know Silicon Valley will be limited to marketing branches of tech companies. The real Silicon Valley will be in India. Any American who wishes to work in it will have to migrate there.
Scott Malkinson
Wtf are you talking about moron, have you not seen China's pollution?
That's what happens when there's no EPA regulations. Did you know breathing air in china (Cities) for one day is the equivalent of smoking 3 packs a day? Are you fucking stupid. We need to lower our standards?
How many Chinese die everyday due to their shitty air pollution standards???
SmashBrosBrawl If you need clothes, technology and everything you have, someone has to make it... and it's China now.
Oh POLLUTION, so terrible... yeah, you fucking pussies. People are doing absolutely fine there. I didn't know you had stopped dying altogether in the US because you sent your industries to China.
You don't have to lower anything... as long as you don't have to, that is. If you continue pushing more industries outside because you think you are entitled to better environment and better pay, companies will continue to take their industries outside of your country... and your people will continue losing jobs and have more and more debt.
Obviously, this is not sustainable. At some point, your economy will collapse. You can't import everything forever and do fine economically. At that point in time most of you won't be able to afford to import anything. You will have to start building your own shit again... and to make it affordable, you will have to lower wages and take down environmental regulations.
Your downfall is inevitable. This would have already happened if China didn't trust the US with so much debt... which the American government lent to banks... who then lent it to failed businesses... whose failure is inevitable but you just borrowed some more time... so when your economy falls next time, it will fall from much higher cliff. Enjoy while it lasts.
SmashBrosBrawl , are you serious or is this just a reverse psychology joke?
Michio Kaku for president!!!!!!! Hilliary and Trump, hmm, do I want a hole in my left eye oo my right eye....hmmm
He is wrong in 1 regard. the united states doesn't have the worst education system in the world the u.s education system is rated at number 7 on the top 25 list
Maybe he meant highschools?
Ive read around #10, but either way thats terrible for having the #1 economy. Ive also read Canada has the #1 on many lists, but the educational system isnt so great here either, I mean its ok, but it could be better.
he didint mean the education system.. he meant the people within the education system... are fucking stupid..
Which is because of the bad educational system lol
Didnt used to be so bad
Kaku does specifically refer to Ph. D candidates, although I think your criticism is valid. For what it's worth, Germany also has similar policies; one of the only ways to obtain a perminent visa is to have completed a technical degree in Germany.